When: Try to find a specific day and month. Sometimes you won't find a day, but you should find a month or season for most.

Where: At least have a country location for each event, but try for a city as well.

Add an Event on your timeline with your research x50.

Step 3: Add Images

After you've completed Step 2, go back to your 20+ most important items and add relevant images. You will need to judge whether the image you find is precise to the event on your timeline.

Step 4: Written Responses

To receive credit, each teammate needs to create a file in Google Drive with grammatically-correct paragraphs for these prompts.

Describes specifically what you did on the project and include the URL. (25-50 words)

Thoughts of World Wars for Americans tend conjure up images of Pearl Harbor or D-Day. Write a paragraph where you describe three of the most significant events on your timeline that did not directly involve Americans (50-100 words).

Using the map view on your timeline, write a paragraph describing the events in Russia or China between 1908-1946 (50-100 words).

Describe three events that you had not heard of (or knew little about) before taking World History this year (50 words).

If you were going to watch a documentary movie focused in detail on 1-2 of these events, explain which topic(s) you would want to know more about (50 words).

DUE: Wednesday, May 8

Events

These events are not in precise order. You will need to find precise dates and locations, when possible.

1908 Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina

1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated

1914 World War I begins as Austria declares war on Serbia

1915 Opposing armies on the Western Front settle into trench warfare

1916 Russia’s war effort near collapse

1915 German navy sinks British ship Lusitania

1917 Germany announces unrestricted submarine warfare

1917 Zimmerman note intercepted

1917 United States declares war on Germany

1917 Communists seize power in Russian Revolution

1918 President Wilson announces Fourteen Points

1918 Germany and Russian sign peace treaty

1918 Allies defeat Central Powers in World War I

1918 Spanish Flu

1919 Versailles Treaty signed

1919 Amritsar Massacre in India

1919 Mussolini founds Italian Fascist party

1919 May Fourth movement begins in China

1921 Chinese Communist Party founded

1922 Russia renamed Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

1928 Stalin in total control of the Soviet Communist Party

1928 Stalin launches first Five-Year Plan

1929 American stock market crashes

1930 Salt March in India

1931 Japan seizes Manchuria, China

1932 Americans elect Franklin Roosevelt

1933 Long March, China

1933 Hitler becomes German chancellor

1935 Italy attacks Ethiopia

1935 Nuremberg Laws passed in Germany

1935 Hitler begins defiance of Versailles treaty

1937 Stalin launches Great Purge

1937 Japan invades China

1938 Kristallnacht in Germany

1938 Germany annexes Austria, Czechoslovakia

1938 Munich Conference

1939 Germany invades Poland

1940 France surrenders to Germany

1940 Battle of Britain begins

1941 Germany invades Soviet Union

1941 Japanese attacks American fleet at Pearl Harbor

1942 Nazis implement “Final Solution”

1942 Allies invade North Africa

1943 Germans retreat from Stalingrad

1944 D-Day invasion of France by Allies

1945 Germany surrenders

1945 Atomic bomb dropped on Japan

1945 Atomic bomb dropped on Japan

1945 Japan surrenders

1946 Nuremberg Trials held

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